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On 2004-07-09 18:01, Kono wrote:
There was an earlier thread talking about The Rock playing Kamehameha in a movie (same one?) but the powers that be felt that his Samoan/African American heritage might offend some native Hawaiians. The Hawaiians should be going into riot mode over this!
It is the same film. The site states:
The end of tribalism in Hawaii was a brutal and bloody affair led by one man: Kamehameha (Reeves), who conquered the Hawaiian Islands one by one, unifying Hawaii as one in 1810. But all this was not without reisitance. The wife (Hu) of one of Kamehameha's soldiers (The Rock) bears witness firsthand the bloodshed and violence which has taken a stronghold in Hawaii as she secretly tries to sabatoge Kamehameha's war effrots. As the Islands begin to fall to Kamehameha, Nai receives news that her husband has died in battle motivating her to plot take direct action against Kamehameha's regime.
I think the Hawaiians should riot over Reeves playing the esteemed role of Kamehameha.
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